Sentences with phrase «course of global events»

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«Mortgage rates dropped over the course of last week as global tensions increased surrounding events in the Middle East and the Korean peninsula,» said Mike Fratantoni, chief economist for the MBA.

Over the course of our conversations, I came to see Obama as a president who has grown steadily more fatalistic about the constraints on America's ability to direct global events, even as he has, late in his presidency, accumulated a set of potentially historic foreign - policy achievements — controversial, provisional achievements, to be sure, but achievements nonetheless: the opening to Cuba, the Paris climate - change accord, the Trans - Pacific Partnership trade agreement, and, of course, the Iran nuclear deal.

Throughout the course of the year, each restaurant supports numerous global, national and regional causes by participating in, or hosting, charitable events.

With courses in executive leadership, global events, and print and digital content, Women of Influence annually reaches over 300,000 professional women and men across Canada and internationally.

This super-accelerated warming event, called the Paleocene - Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), is generally considered the fastest global heat - up in the geological record — with the exception, of course, of the one we're cooking up right now.

Proctor also attended a Hunger Banquet — an event that simulates the stark realities of global food shortages and food insecurity, where a small percentage of the participants receive a full three - course meal, while the majority eat just a small cup of rice.

It felt a little like Fashion's Night Out, the global shopping - cum - party event first initiated by American Vogue that drew hundreds of thousands of consumers all over the world into stores to celebrate fashion and shopping at a time when the global economy was in the doldrums (though, of course, most of the attendees didn't actually shop, coming instead for the entertainment value).

Your mention of translation rings a bell for me as I prepare various programs this fall for conferences on independent authors and the international potential — and, of course, the message we have to carry in to these events is that there's no easy way, no push - button solution to the difficulties still inherent in «going global,» as some like to call it.

It will be interesting to watch over the course of the year how markets react to more potentially disruptive events and changes in the global status quo.

Petfood Forum 2016 marked the first time pet industry media outside of the Watt Global Media family were invited to join the annual event in Kansas City, Mo., so, of course, Pet Product News wasted no time thanking the hosts and securing a seat at an experience pet food experts bill as «the hub of the global pet food manufacturing industry.&Global Media family were invited to join the annual event in Kansas City, Mo., so, of course, Pet Product News wasted no time thanking the hosts and securing a seat at an experience pet food experts bill as «the hub of the global pet food manufacturing industry.&global pet food manufacturing industry.»

«At Matava, and Mad Fish Dive Centre we are of course both happy and proud to be involved in this global event and in the South Pacific and indeed the World» said Matava Director, Richard Akhtar.

There will be daily Dark Zone supply drops, representing a global event happening multiple times over the course of a day.

Three games will be featured in the event namely: League of Legends, Counter Strike: Global Offensive, and of course Tekken 7.

There have been a wide range of events throughout the year to keep us entertained, from PlayUp Perth to the Game Foundry, PotLucks to The Page, and of course the Perth Games Festival, Unconference and Global Game Jam.

One, «Course of Empire,» inspired by a series of paintings by Ed Ruscha, looks at how artists have responded to major global events, including 9/11, Hurricane Katrina and the financial catastrophe of 2008.

Due to this semi-random nature of weather, it is wrong to blame any one event such as Katrina specifically on global warming — and of course it is just as indefensible to blame Katrina on a long - term natural cycle in the climate.

One political implication of this normalization process is that if global warming proceeds slowly enough, then the potential exists that we will just progressively become more used to unusual weather — the unusual (by today's standards) becomes usual, and we will cease being alarmed about what is now the usual course of events.

It is prudent to expect that over the course of a decade some climate events — including single events, conjunctions of events occurring simultaneously or in sequence in particular locations, and events affecting globally integrated systems that provide for human well - being — will produce consequences that exceed the capacity of the affected societies or global systems to manage and that have global security implications serious enough to compel international response.

Given that global warming is unequivocal, the null hypothesis should be that all weather events are affected by global warming rather than the inane statements along the lines of «of course we can not attribute any particular weather event to global warming».

In the course of the last 15 years, governments and authorities the world over have been warned loudly and repeatedly that global warming could be accompanied by a greater risk of severe weather - related events: floods, heatwaves, ice storms, typhoons and droughts.

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The views expressed in this report do not necessarily reflect those of the faculty and participants in Harvard's Global Environmental Policy Project nor any single individual attending the executive session, but rather form a compendium of ideas and arguments put forth over the course of the two day event.

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